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INTIMATION
To-day is the Mrthday anniversary of E.M. the King of Sweden.
A contribution, of $51 has been received
of overcoming this slackness on the part of "a menority, and maybe of small minority" of the workers helped to give countenance to the idea that the evil is more widespread than most Englishmen from the Taikoo Dockyard Staff to the
The simple Territorials' Entertainment Fund. at least know to be the case. truth is that the occasion demands the
When the last mail left Shanghai Mr. full service of query man engaged in the
to the conclusion, upon Municipal Council, was wiriously ill-in SHERRY, E WHISKY ovidence furnished by careful inves the General Hospital.
The Chief Justice of the Straits Settle-
-stands for Excellent, and anyone
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or E BRANDY can be in no doubt that the letter
ment eamo
the prohibition of tigation, that facilities for obtaining drink in the arcay Econcorned, was, short of compulsory ments, the Hon. Mr. J. A. S. Buckuill, service, the best means of getting from K... left England by the P. c 0. ma the "slacker" his full service. It is evident on his return voyage to Singapore at the that in the early stages of the war the end of May.
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The Daily Press.
HOKORONG, JUNE 16TH, 1916,
MEN AND MONITIONS OF WAR.
of
A certain Chinese recently had a costly
Hundreds probable demand for munitions was grieviously under-estimated.
men who have been employed in making night's rest according to the police reports. It appears that a shopkeeper of war materials in time of peace volunteered 80 Des Voeux Road West was asleep in his for service at the front when the call came Club, the Sik Lo, when he was robbed of
But others, for men for the new army
who
watch and chain etc. to the value of 120; and no-one in the Club can give any indication as to how or when the watch changed owners,
A Chinese carpenter eniployed on the 8.8. Ranella came ahore with $120 in
our
readers, says
of Many Kolz Herold, will regret very
henr that Mr. Sidney
the much Town-
Perhaps les expert, took their places in the factories, and the output of munitions has been increasing prodigiously month Yet the call is for even by month. greater effort, and a larger organisation for this purpose. Lord KITCHENER-haz even recalled men from the Colours to serve their country in the factories, and his possession, and handed it to a clans when calling for another 300,000 men to man to keep ja safe custody for bin new armies a month age, his When the carpenter came forward again are to claim the money he was informed. by form
said: Those lordship engaged in the production of war material the clansman that "someone" had open- of any kind should not leave their worked his box and removed the money. This It is to man who are not performing this is all the polics and the fortunate carpen- duty that I appeal, and I am convinced ter have to work upon. the manhood of England still available will loyally respond." It is satisfactory to learn from the latest telegrams that there is no longer any uneasiness fell regarding the adequacy of the supply send, son of Mr. A. M. Townsend, fate of shells or other war material. Manager of the Hongkang and Shaighai Experience gained in this unparalleled Bank in London, has been killed in action war has enabled the military experts to in France. He was an officer in the sal estimate the enormous extent of their Life Guards. Mr. Sidney Townsend was needs for operations in contemplation, so cut hers on business about six years ago. that when Lord KITCHENER expresses con- Much sympathy will be left for his parents fidence, as he did in the House of Lords and sisters, one of whom is Mrs. Stabb, a month ago, that in the near future wife of Mr. N. J. Stabby, Chic! Manager, we shall be in a satisfactory position in Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, who now regard to the supply of shells," we feel loses her only brother, the other, who was that all grounds for uneasiness on that in the British Legation in Peking, ving score have been removed. The nation died in Yokohama from wounds received.
during the Boxer rising in 1990. plainly told having been urgency of the need, has risen meet it, just as it has so far met every call made by the Government for men for If apathy exists rvice in the armies.
the of
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anywhere in the British Empire il apathy born of ignorance of the country's needs. Lord ROSEBERY in a public speech
recently in which he declared that he saw
to
A Hankow paper Itarsis from Kiukiang that news has been received there to the effect that Captain Cottrel-Dormer, well
known on the river from his being it com mand of R.M.S. Thistle, was Comman- der of the ill-fated Princess trene which was blown up, in Sheerz harbour. There was only one
rivor, whom it is needless to
Was
HORAKONG OFFzon:101, Das Vaux Road C. LONDON Orion: 131, FLEET STAKEN, E.Ono signs of apathy, asked: "What nation in history has ever raised over two million men in a few months by voluntary
Captain not the Commander. service and is willing to spend over two millions a day as long as they have two Cottrel-Dormer was married in China to. millions to spend in order to fortify their a daughter of Mr. E. Mollay, Harbour Let those who Master at Kiukiang, and in addition to armaments in the field! feel the apathy stand forth." There is now his young widow leaves two small This intelligence, says our ao apathy in fact. The Government has children. only to explain its need of men either for contemporary, will be received with the the trenches or the factories and it will find deepest regret by the many friends of both, As was to be expected, much has been that not only in the United Kingdom but with whom they were deservedly most. made in Germany of the recent references by British statesmen to the output of in every British Colony throughout the popular, munitions in the United Kingdom being world the people are capable of rising to even greater heights of patrictie fervour hampered by the addiction of a certain
than we have already seen. As the war section of the workers to excessive drink-drags on we hear less and less of the ing. It goes without the saying that as need for conscription in Great Britain: the nows is published in Germany these the voluntary system of service has proved. statements are given a wider application |
than the speakers themselves gave to them equal to the occasion up to date, and seem far yet from "exhausting-its or were intended to have; but the Germans we can at least retort that if they have sinnedpossibilities, in giving to the statements of British statesmen an interpretation they were never intended to bear they have sinne:
“A HONGKONG MAN-AT- - THE FRONT,
Lauce-Corporal Cyri! Wilkie, of the 2nd Batt. Middlesex. Regiment, whose elever- ness on the football fold is readily re-call- ed by Hongkong footballers, writing to his br her, Mr. P. W. A. Wilkie, of Butterfeld & Swire, under date 3rd May
A mail for Europe whi Siberia closes (his birthday), says, inter alia:-
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Mrs. Phillips, 46, Elgin Street, has re- at Norwich worked himself up to a great ported to the police that some person state of indignation over the spcccles stole from her sitting room a brass clock made by Mr. Lloyd GEORGE, and declared in blackwood stand, valued at 830, [36
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I am writing this in a bit of a field beside er billet, which is a farmhouse, my section being in one of the barns, or, rather, outhouses. Just now we are hav- ing twelve days' rest after being in the firing line for six days All the Hongkong
that workers who were putting in 48
At the Marine Court yesterday, before fellows who joined the Middlesex Regi- hours a week had been "maligned and! insulted, and the lying word on the Commander Beckwith, the master of the ment are out, or have been out, except -
CITI: Tobacco
Hongkong
·Company's authority of Mr. LLOYD GEORGE-had goness. Nisho Jurn was fioed 350 for unlaw-Coleman (formerly of the British-Ameri- P.C. Hoare spoke to branch), and another, who, I think, has runnd the world that the British working fully carrying passengers without a pas
been discharged as medically unfit. Four
classes were a set of dranken wasters."
senger certificate,
Mr LLOYD GEORGɛ took the unusual but finding under the bridge deck twelve
Chinese, four children, and one Japanese have been in battle. One was slightly.......... necessary course of denying the wild accusation" by writing a letter for
whereas the ship had only recently clear wounded, one badly wounded, and two Ho
The Master's killed. The others have been in the general circulation in the Press.
ed "no passengers." reproduced the only two references he has made to the effect of drinking upon the excuse was that he was informed by the firing lice, but not in battle. Lance- output of munitions of war, and showed charterers that there were no passengers. Corp. Wilkie states that he is quite fit and clearly that he referred to "a minority"-
L
Early yesterday morning a landslide
well.
ANOTHER OPIUM HAUL. " section-maybe a small section, but occurred at Taihang village as the result a very important section, of workmen." of which four Chinese are now lying in
BLUE FUNNEL LINER RAIDED. He gladly acknowledged in his speeches the Government Civil Hospital. The that most of our workmen are putting slide, which was brought about as a result
As the result of a two days' search of every cance of strength into this urgent the recent heavy rains, occurred at a
Funnel steamer Phyrrus, the Blue work for their country, loyally and block of buildings belonging to Mr. C. E. patriotically." No reflection was cast Warren, and four of his servants were Revenue Officers Wilden, Langley and in his speeches upon those who, according buried under, the debris, which, fortun- to Mr. KEIR HARDIE are working 84
On the contrary, his ately, was held up by bricks and so allow of opium, while another 300 lbs. was dis- hours a week. complaint was against the men who were ed breathing space. The four people were covered by P.S. Pincott. The ship was failing at this critical time to put in resined by kremen and police. A retain searched at Singapore, but the Revenne anything approaching even 53 hours ing wall at "Basaley," West Point, also Officers there were only able to discover week. Perhaps the drastic methods which collapsed yesterday, its fall being attri-7 lbs. of opium. The opium is valued at
$5 per 3h. the Government proposed for the purpose huted to the heavy rains.
MacMillan yesterday discovered 1,358 lbs.